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...security guard at Lamont library who wishes to remain anonymous is sure the “name doesn’t ring a bell.” He’s referring to a not-so-cryptic message in the far corner of the basement microfiche cage in Lamont, one floor below the most subterranean study carrels. The message warns late-night users of a certain “Mad Jack.” Despite the words of this self-proclaimed “well-wisher,” the guard thinks Jack’s a joke. He says...
...says that only the unexpected is genuinely fresh, so for his next album he intends to drastically recreate himself. He says he “might have been too cryptic early on” when his real goal is to “raise awareness about what’s going on with the government, and make people think...
...valley of the dead," declared explorer Robert Falcon Scott after discovering Taylor Valley in 1903, and at first glance it would seem he was right. Yet there is life in the Dry Valleys, albeit life that is primitive in form and exceedingly cryptic. Minuscule roundworms called nematodes and insects known as springtails constitute what biologists jokingly call the "lions and tigers of the soil." The top of the aquatic food chain is occupied by single-cell protozoa that feed on bacteria...
...like what it saw before Sept. 11, 2001. More suspicious phone calls and more reports from field agents suggested al-Qaeda suspects appeared to be on the move. "There's more activity on the communications circuits used by dirty guys," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "There are more cryptic conversations by people making plans to travel." The FBI's graphic warning of "spectacular" attacks causing "mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy and maximum psychological trauma" raised anxiety even as agents acknowledged they had no idea when, where or how the terrorists might strike. While the Administration...
...established 826 Valencia, a non-profit center in San Francisco where students can go for tutoring in writing. At the same time he has slipped into self-imposed obscurity, avoiding the press--he returned Time's phone calls but asked not to be quoted--and staging his readings as cryptic, Andy Kaufman--style happenings. And then there's his jars-of-dirt store. It could just be clever marketing--this kind of behavior discourages media attention the way napalm discourages fire--but even Velocity is being brought out coyly, in an initial printing of a mere 10,000 copies, available...